Portmoak Primary Pantomime

It has been panto season over at Portmoak Primary in the last few weeks, as Primary 4-7 put on a rendition of Aladdin. A school pantomime has become a bi-annual event at Portmoak, and is something which is very much looked forward to by everyone in the school community. The choir, led by Mr Young, music teacher, were made up of P4-5s and P6-7 fulfilled all of the acting and backstage roles. Miss Kettles, the P5/6 teacher, was the director. The children played to a sell out crowd on Wednesday and Thursday evening, as well as an afternoon performance on the Tuesday. Family and friends who came to see Aladdin were extremely complementary about the standard of performance from all concerned.

Aladdin was played by Grace Cowie this year and Esme Allen was princess Jasmine. Ewan Cowe made the audience laugh out loud in his reprisal of the Widow Twankey and there were many boos to be heard as Max Spenke portrayed the evil Abenazer.

Louise Gordon, headteacher, said “I am so proud of the standard achieved by our senior pupils at this year’s pantomime. Thank you to the staff for their sterling work towards the pantomime and for all pulling together to ensure it could happen, particular mention should go to Miss Kettles, who was the driving force behind the whole thing. A well deserved holiday is coming up for all involved – well done!”